THE SKULL OF YORICK: The Emptiness of American Thinking at a Time of Grave Peril--Studies in the cover-up of 9/11

From the author of A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit (2006), seventeen literary-political essays ask whether Americans can remain a nation of liars ("U.S.A.—Land of Liars") without inevitably bringing about the eternal death of the republic. "The 'Debate' Over 9/11" asks this question, as does "The Premeditated Murder of the United States of America." Readers will find the question asked—and answered—in "Howard Zinn and the Tea Cozy," "Is Dwight Garner a Di...